The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2025/2026:
Learning to Walk / Walking to Learn: on decentralising & dehierarchising learning & teaching fashion:


– sources & resources on walking



• Andrews, Kerri (2020) Wanderers: A History of Women Walking. London: Reaktion Books.

• Benjamin, Walter (1929) 'The Return of the Flaneur'
https://www.scribd.com/document/145975417/The-Return-of-the-Flaneur  (review of Franz Hessel's Spazieren in Berlin)

• Benjamin, Walter (1999) 'Convolute M: Flaneur' in: The Arcades Project. London: Belknap Press (translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin)

• Cole, Teju (2016) Known and Strange Things: Essays. New York: Random House.

• Elkin, Lauren (2017) Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London. London: Vintage.

• Gros, Frédéric (2015) A Philosophy of Walking. transl. John Howe, London & Brooklyn: Verso.

• Hanh, Thich Nhat (2016) How to Walk. Ebury Publishing.

• Hanh, Thich Nhat (1996/2011) The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation. Parallax Press.

• Hazan, Eric (2019) A Walk Through Paris: A Radical Exploration. Transl. David Fernbach. London & Brooklyn: Verso.

• Horvath, Agnes & Szakolczai, Arpad (2018) Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking. Abingdon & New York: Routledge.

• Kagge, Erling (2019) Walking: One Step at a Time. New York: Viking.

• Miyazaki, Yoshuifumi (2021) Walking in the Woods: Go Back to Nature With the Japanese Way of Shinrin-Yoku. Octopus Publishing.

• Neruda, Pablo (1935/1993) "Walking Around" from Neruda & Vallejo: Selected Poems, by Pablo Neruda and translated by Robert Bly. Boston: Beacon Press.

• O’Mara, Shane (2020) In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

• Risser, Ralf & Sucha, Matus (2020) 'Start Walking! How to Boost Sustainable Mode Choice – Psychological Measures to Support a Shift from Individual Car Use to More Sustainable Traffic Modes’ in: Sustainability.12(2), 554, https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/2/554

• Rosseau, Jean-Jacques (1782) The Reveries of a Solitary Walker.
https://dn720002.ca.archive.org/0/items/rousseau-reveries-of-the-solitary-walker-butterworth_202201/Rousseau%20-%20Reveries%20of%20the%20solitary%20walker%20%5BButterworth%5D.pdf
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks19/1900981h.html

• Solnit, Rebecca (2001) Wanderlust: A History of Walking. New York: Penguin Books.

• Thoreau, Henry David (1851) 'Walking' https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1022

• Walser, Robert (2012) The Walk. Translated by Susan Bernofsky, New York: New Directions.

walker writers 


Patrick Leigh Fermor, Bruce Chatwin, Robert Macfarlane, Rory Stewart, Paul Salopek, Dorothee Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf, Harriet Martineau,

on walking & learning / walking pedagogy



• Beavington, Lee (2021) Walking Pedagogy for Science Education and More-Than-Human Connection’ in: Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies. Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 163-178.

Beyes, Timon & Steyaert, Chris. (2021) ‘Unsettling bodies of knowledge: Walking as a pedagogy of affect’ in: Management Learning, 52(2), 224-242. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507620979713

• Bosch, Susanne (2025) 'Walking as Relational Practice' in: Bentz, Julia & Ristic Trajkovic, Jelena (eds.) Imagining, Designing and teaching Regenerative Futures: Art-Science Approaches and Inspirations From Around the World, Springer, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-9029-9, pp. 239-244.

• Burckhardt, Lucius (2015) Why Is Landscape Beautiful? The Science of Strollology. edited by Markus Ritter and Martin Schmitz. Birkhäuser.

• Gibson, Sarah (2023) ‘Mobilizing Cultural Studies: The Pedagogy of Walking, Field Trips, and the KwaZulu-Natal Battlefields Route’ in: Transfers. Vol. 13, Issue 1/2, pp. 32-54.

• Gilbertson, Zoe & Devisscher, Niels & Zemeugovaite, Rüta (2025) 'Perception Walks – Using Clothing as a Portal and Reflection Guide' in: Bentz, Julia & Ristic Trajkovic, Jelena (eds.) Imagining, Designing and teaching Regenerative Futures: Art-Science Approaches and Inspirations From Around the World, Springer,
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-9029-9, pp. 251-255.

• Haddon, Dee et al. (eds.) (2022) The Walkbook: Recipes for walking & wellbeing. AHRC, https://walkcreate.gla.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/THE-WALKBOOK.pdf• Holloway, John (2002) 'Zapatismo and the Social Sciences' in: Capital & Class. #78, Volume 26, Issue 3, pp. 153–160.

• Holtzman, Lynn (2021) 'The Pedagogy of Thoreau’s Essay "Walking"’ in: Thoreau Society Bulletin. Issue 312, pp. 5-6. https://thoreausociety.org/wp-content/uploads/TSB-312-WINTER-2021-Mar-3-for-printing.pdf

• Ingold, Tim (2004) ‘Culture on the Ground: The World Perceived through the Feet’ in: Journal of Material Culture 9, no. 3 (2004): 315–340, here 330, https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183504046896.

• Masschelein, Jan (2010) ‘E-ducating the gaze: the idea of a poor pedagogy’ in: Ethics and Education. Vol. 5(1), pp. 43-53, DOI: 10.1080/17449641003590621.

• McLaren, Peter & Jandric, Petar (2014) 'Critical Revolutionary Pedagogy is Made by Walking: in a world where many worlds coexist' in: Policy Futures in Education. Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 805–831.

• Mello-Silva, Carolina & Disterheft, Antje & Woodford, Robert (2025) ‘Deep Time Walk’ in: Bentz, Julia & Ristic Trajkovic, Jelena (eds.) Imagining, Designing and teaching Regenerative Futures: Art-Science Approaches and Inspirations From Around the World, Springer, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-9029-9, pp. 209-214.

• Moriano, Beatriz & Lagunas, Neus (2025) ‘Foot(notes): A Diary of Learning Walking’ in: Bentz, Julia & Ristic Trajkovic, Jelena (eds.) Imagining, Designing and teaching Regenerative Futures: Art-Science Approaches and Inspirations From Around the World, Springer,
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-9029-9, pp. 69-73.

• O’Neill, Maggie & Penfold-Mounce, Ruth & Honeywell, David & Coward-Gibbs, Matt & Crowder, Harriet & Hill, Ivan (2021) ‘Creative Methodologies for a Mobile Criminology: Walking as Critical Pedagogy’ in: Sociological Research Online. Vol. 26(2) 247-268.

• O’Neill, Maggie & Edwards, Claire & Ni Laoire, Caitriona & Mullaly, Ger & Fathi, Mastoureh (2023) ‘Introduction to the Special Issue – Walking Methods in Social Research’ in: Irish Journal of Sociology. Vol. 3(1), pp. 3–11. 

• Oppezzo, Marily & Schwartz, Daniel L. (2014) 'Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking' in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Vol. 40(4), pp. 1142–1152.
• Parry-Davies, E. and M, Sharanya (2020) '"The Afterlife of a Walk: A Dialogue on the Possibilities of Anti-Racist Walking"'. in: Contemporary Theatre Review. 30 (4), pp. 575 - 600. ISSN: 1048-6801.

• Pyne Feinberg, Pohanna (2016) ‘Towards a Walking-Based Pedagogy’ in: Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies. Vol. 14 (1), pp. 147–165.

• Rallis, Nicole & Morimoto, Ken & Sorensen, Michele & Trippgs, Valerie & Irwin, Rita L. (eds.) (2024) Walking as Art Education: Ecopedagogical and A/r/tographical Encounters. Intellect.

• Rose, Morag & Heddon, Dee & Law, Matthew & O’Neill, Maggie & Qualmann, Clare & Wilson, Harry (2022) ‘#WalkCreate: Understanding Walking and Creativity during COVID-19’ Public Report of Walking Publics / Walking Arts: Walking, Wellbeing and Community, May, https://walkcreate.gla.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/WALK-ART-report.pdf

• Rose, Morag & Heddon, Dee & Law, Matthew & O’Neill, Maggie & Qualmann, Clare & Wilson, Harry (2022) ‘#WalkCreate: Understanding Walking and Creativity during COVID-19’ Summary of Public Report of Walking Publics / Walking Arts: Walking, Wellbeing and Community, May, https://walkcreate.gla.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/WALKART-summary.pdf

• Rosenberg, David (2019) Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Radical History. London: Pluto Press.

• Sharanya. (2017). ‘A Manifesto to Decolonise Walking: Approximate steps’ in: Performance Research, 22(3), pp. 85–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2017.1348596.

• Snepvangers, Kim & Davis, Susan (eds.) (2018) Embodied and Walking Pedagogies Engaging the Visual Domain: Research Creation and Practice. University of Illinois Research Park: Common Ground Research Network.

• Springgay, Stephanie & Truman, Sarah E. (2018). Walking Methodologies in a More-than-Human World: WalkingLab. London, UK: Routledge.

• Springgay, Stephanie & Truman, Sarah E. (2019) 'Walking in/as Publics: Editors Introduction' in: Journal of Public Pedagogies. Vol. Number 4, pp.

• Walker, Tony (2022) Black History Walks Vol.1. London: Jacaranda.
https://jacarandabooks.co.uk/products/black-history-walks-1?_pos=1&_sid=7fc1a9b93&_ss=r

• Wright & Sites (2006) 'A Manifesto for a New Walking Culture: Dealing With the City' in: Performance Research. 11:2, pp. 115-122. https://opencourses.ionio.gr/modules/document/file.php/DAVA343/A%20Manifesto%20for%20a%20New%20Walking%20Culture%20Dealing%20with%20the%20city.pdf



podcasts


https://walkinglab.org/podcast/walkinglab-introduction-to-critical-walking-methodologies/



websites


https://blackhistorywalks.co.uk/

https://walkcreate.gla.ac.uk/

https://walkinglab.org/

on dehierarchising and decolonising
learning & teaching


• Ahmed, Tanveer (2018) ‘”All about Love”: How would bell hooks teach fashion design?’ conference paper, Design Research Society, Catalyst, University of Limerick, 25–28 June.

• Ahmed, Tanveer (2021) ‘Anti-Racist Design: A Decolonial Feminist Approach to Fashion’ in: Paim, N. and Mareis, C. (eds). Design Struggles: Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies and Perspectives. Valiz https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/17909/

• Ahmed, Tanveer (2022) ‘Are fashion sketchbooks racist?’ in: Fashion, Style & Popular Culture. Vol. 9, Issue 3, pp. 367-381, doi: https://doi.org/10.1386/fspc_00055_1

• Ahmed, Tanveer (2022), ‘Towards a decolonial feminist fashion design reading list?’alj, published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of ARLIS, doi: 10.1017/alj.2021.26, https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/17868/1/towards-a-decolonial-feminist-fashion-design-reading-list.pdf

• Ahmed, Tanveer (2022) ‘What is education in fashion?’ Reflecting on the coloniality of design techniques in the fashion design educational process’ in: International Journal of Fashion Studies. Vol 9, No. 2 pp. 401-412.

• Bakhshov, Nadim (2015) Against Capitalist Education: What is Education for?. John Hunt Publishing.

• Freire, Paolo (1970/1993) Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Transl. Myra Bergman Ramos, London: Penguin.

• Freire, Paolo (1992/2021) Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Transl. Robert B. Parr, London & New York: Bloomsbury Academics.

• hooks, bell (1994) Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge.

• hooks, bell (2003) Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope. New York: Routledge.

• hooks, bell (2010) Teaching Critical Wisdom: Practical Wisdom. New York: Routledge.

• Ivan Illich (1971) Deschooling Society. London: Marion Boyars.

• Jensen, Angela M. (2020) Fashion and the Phantasmagoria of Modernity: An Introduction to Decolonial Fashion Discourse, Fashion Theory, 24:6, 815-836, DOI:10.1080/1362704X.2020.1802098.

• Moten, Fred & Harney, Stefano (2013) The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. London: Minor Compositions.






























     

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